What difference does it make if the EU makes all kinds of rules and regulations and noise? Can’t Europeans simply ignore them?

Yeah, he was a funny fella that Andrew Jackson. On the one hand he was one of the biggest advocates of liberty that the US has ever had. Yet on the other hand he was as colonialist as the age he was born into.

It is true that a regime is only as powerfull as its subjects are cooperative. The fall of the Berlin wall is another prime example of how simply ignoring the rules can cause the collapse of a state.

However, with the EU I fear change will be a lot longer in the making. The european project is one that has crept up on the people in such a way as to seem benign, and it feels like the early days of a state rather than the latter days. Saying that, I do not know of another system that was born with so much reluctance from the population at its very inception.

Even the leaders of member countries seem to be doing their best to throw spanners in the works; the Czech Republic are the only people yet to ratify the LIsbon Treaty, and their Prime Minister is openly opposed to signing it off. Despite this it seems he will do so under pressure.

As for acts of blatent disregard of EU laws by the public, it is hard to see this happening until we become more educated as to which particular UK laws originate from Brussels. By some estimates, up to 80% of new legislation is EU instigated (other figures estimate as low as 9%). The truth is sometimes hard to come by unfortunately but Interesting times lie ahead that is for sure.

What difference does it make if the EU makes all kinds of rules and regulations and noise? Can't Europeans simply ignore them?